[Torontoguy @ Apr 14th 2006 10:56PM]

Well, let's see if we have the pattern down.
1) misguided geek A with too much time on his hands decides to squander the computing resources of a major research center on some completely pointless exercise (like cracking a copy protection scheme).
2) If successful, his method makes it out through the geek grapevine to irresponsible dork B who develops the method into a cracking application which he then releases into the wild so that...
3) total lamers n can make and distribute free copies of $20.00 movies.
Hey, Professor! Nobody has developed a cure for cancer yet...why don't you work on that?

[David @ Nov 13th 2006 1:45PM]

That's a bit short sighted. The major reason for copy protection isn't so much the hackers etc but the pirates whop churn out hundreds of thousands of the $20 discs often well enough to get their boot leg product into reputable retailers.
Unfortuately the zealousness of the MPAA to protect their already over priced product equates to an inferior product being sold to the consumer.
The comment about curing cancer is beyond acceptable. Not only do you in a swoop slander suffers of the disease you beggar the question what have YOU done to cure the disease?

[Don @ Nov 14th 2006 5:33PM]

Perhaps because he's a computer science researcher and not a cancer researcher? Dumbass.